Re: Boycott Microsoft

In article <6jr8r4$ibq$1_at_wopr.wolfram.com>, sandrock_at_wopr.wolfram.com (Mark Sandrock) writes:
>"Scott Willsey" <Scott_A_Willsey_nospam_at_ccm.fm.intel.com> writes:
>>...
>>People who think the companies begging the government to squish Microsoft
>>are any better are kidding themselves. They just aren't as successful.
>
>Imo, Sun and Netscape are better than MS: they are innovators, who
>are being "squished" by illegal, monopolistic tactics.

Sun is being squished more from there inability (or lack of interest) to compete in the commodity computer market. Those high margins and service contracts will kill them in the end. I'm not going to touch Netscape, but from my experience dealing with Sun as a customer, they're the most arrogant company I've ever encountered.

>
>The government's got this one right, but they're not squishing MS.
>They're stopping MS from squishing the real innovators.
>

Government regulation and oversight is hardly EVER a good thing. The software industry needs a real professional association to regulate these things internally.

JCS Received on Tue May 19 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT